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HS08
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Block Youtube

Hello,

I have app control to block video/audio to blocking access to youtube.

When i check in the log i found the firewall sometime block access to youtube and sometime is allowing. 

Anyone know what should i do?

 

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manaaju
New Contributor

I have a chrome extension called unhook. Reduced YouTube to just a search bar at the top. No thumbnails, recommends, etc

https://19216811.cam/ https://1921681001.id/
pkumari
Staff
Staff

Please check if you have "deep inspection" enabled in the firewall policy for "YouTube"- otherwise "blocking" just using web/application filter may not work correctly (because YouTube uses Google's *.wildcard security certificate).

Please refer below document for your reference.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.4.4/administration-guide/737508/top-application-youtu...

dbhavsar
Staff
Staff

Hello @HS08 ,

 

- Also make sure the URLs as mentioned in this article are also included in web-filter if you are using that: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-Block-Youtube-using-Static-URL-filt... 

DNB
FortiArt

Please make sure to use proxy-inspection mode firewall policy in case you prefer not to implement deep packet inspection. Deep packet inspection require installing Fortigate CA certificate on every single PC that is coming from the incoming interface of that policy. If those aren't domain machines, this will be tedious. Proxy-inspection may work for you. This requires proxy-based UTM profiles.

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